ODD ONE OUT! 70 Slides! An Engaging Brain Break, Bell Ringer, Game | Grades 5+
ODD ONE OUT! 70 Slides! An Engaging Brain Break, Bell Ringer, Game | Grades 5+
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Which one doesn’t belong? And more importantly... WHY?
Get students chatting, debating, thinking critically and justifying their ideas with 70 engaging Odd One Out challenges across 3 different difficulty levels.
Perfect for those moments when you need a quick brain break, bell ringer, morning activity, transition task or meaningful five-minute time filler, Odd One Out is ridiculously easy to pull up and play.
Students are shown four options and challenged to decide which one is the odd one out.
The catch?
They need to be ready to justify their answer.
Some are immediately obvious. Others require students to look more closely, make connections and think laterally before deciding.
Choose a difficulty level, pick a challenge using the clickable navigation, let the discussion begin, then move to the reveal slide to see the intended answer!
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
✓ 70 Odd One Out challenges
✓ 3 difficulty levels so you can choose challenges that suit different ages, grades and groups
✓ A question slide + reveal slide for every challenge
✓ Clickable navigation so you can choose a difficulty level and jump directly to individual challenges
✓ PowerPoint version
✓ Google Slides version
✓ Bright, highly visual slides designed to engage upper primary, middle and high school students
3 LEVELS OF CHALLENGE
Not every class needs the same level of challenge.
That’s why Odd One Out is divided into three different difficulty levels, allowing you to easily choose the best fit for the students in front of you.
👉LEVEL 1
More accessible challenges that are great for younger students, quick brain breaks or introducing the activity.
👉LEVEL 2
Students need to look a little more carefully and make stronger connections between the options.
👉LEVEL 3
The trickier challenges! Perfect when you want students thinking laterally, discussing possibilities and really justifying their reasoning.
Simply select your level from the clickable contents page, then choose a challenge.
HOW TO PLAY
- Choose a difficulty level.
- Select a challenge using the clickable navigation.
- Show students the four options.
- Ask them to decide which one is the Odd One Out.
- Encourage students to explain and justify their reasoning.
- Move to the reveal slide to see the intended answer and explanation.
Simple!
You can have students discuss their thinking as a class, work in groups or pairs, or turn it into a quiet independent thinking or writing activity.
PERFECT FOR...
✏️ Brain Breaks
Give students a quick change of pace while keeping their brains switched on.
✏️ Bell Ringers & Starter Activities
Have a highly visual thinking task ready on the board as students settle into class.
✏️ Critical Thinking Activities
Encourage students to analyse information, make connections and explain their reasoning.
✏️ Speaking & Listening
The best part isn't simply getting the answer. It’s hearing students explain why they chose it.
✏️ Literacy Across the Curriculum
Ask students to justify their answer verbally or turn their reasoning into a short written response.
✏️ Morning Meetings & Tutor Time
Use a quick challenge to spark conversation and connection.
✏️ Transitions
Give students something structured and engaging to focus on while moving between parts of the lesson.
✏️ Five-Minute Time Fillers
Those weird little pockets of unstructured time? Handled. 🙌
✏️ Class Community Building
Students naturally hear different perspectives, debate ideas and discover that other people may approach exactly the same problem differently.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE ODD ONE OUT
♡ 70 challenges = serious mileage.
Use one a day and you have weeks and weeks of ready-to-go starters and brain breaks.
♡ Three difficulty levels make differentiation EASY.
Choose the level that works for your class without needing an entirely different resource.
♡ It gets students talking for a reason.
Rather than asking students to simply give an answer, Odd One Out encourages them to explain, discuss and justify their thinking.
♡ It develops critical and lateral thinking.
Students need to identify similarities, differences and connections before making a decision.
♡ Clickable navigation makes it genuinely easy to use.
Choose your level, choose your challenge, and GO.
♡ Every challenge includes a reveal.
Once students have committed to their answer, move to the next slide to reveal the intended Odd One Out and why.
♡ It works as a group OR independent task.
Turn it into a lively whole-class debate, have students discuss in pairs, or ask them to independently justify their answer in writing.
NOT JUST A SILLY FIVE-MINUTE GAME...
Odd One Out gives students repeated opportunities to:
✓ think critically
✓ think laterally
✓ justify their responses
✓ communicate their reasoning
✓ listen to different perspectives
✓ make connections
✓ build confidence contributing ideas
And for you?
It gives you 70 ready-to-go activities for those moments when you need something engaging, purposeful and ridiculously easy to pull up.
70 challenges. 3 difficulty levels. Question + reveal slides. Clickable navigation. PowerPoint + Google Slides.
One very handy answer to:
“What can I put on the board for five minutes?”
💛 Want even more ready-to-go brain breaks?
This resource is also included in my Brain Break Mega Bundle, packed with 1000+ slides, activities and prompts for brain breaks, bell ringers, morning work, settling activities and those random five-minute gaps throughout the year.
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